University of Michigan, School of Music
M.M. in Music Theory awarded May 1990
Musicology cognate area

University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music
B.M. in Music Theory awarded June 1988

Honors and Awards

Florida State University Graduate Teaching Award, 2012-2013

Florida State University Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2004-2005

University of Iowa Collegiate Teaching Award, 2000-2001

Award for best paper delivered at the 1st International Symposium for Systems Research in the Arts in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics, and Cybernetics, Baden-Baden, Germany, August 1999

Nominated for the Music Theory Society of New York State Young Scholars Award, 1995

Nominated for the Edward Peck Curtis Teaching Award at the University of Rochester, 1993 and 1995

Eastman School of Music (University of Rochester) Graduate Student Teaching Award, 1993

Memberships

Society for Music
Theory, 1995-present

Elected Offices

Vice President of the Society (elected), 2013-2015

Member at Large on the Executive Board, 2005-2008

Committees

Subvention Policy Subcommittee, 2015

Subventions Committee, Chair (ex-officio), 2013-2015

Chair of the Program Committee, 2013

Member of the Graduate Workshops and Peer Learning Program Committee (ex-officio), 2012-2013

in Review of You're
a Grand Old Rag: The Music of George M. Cohan (recording) by Rick Benjamin
and The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, Journal
of the Society for American Music, vol 6, no. 2, 2012: 255-258.

Setmaker,
first released 1993, last updated 2004
Computer software for Macintosh and Windows platforms that performs many
set-theoretic and transformational manipulations on unordered pitch-class
sets.

Some Thoughts
on the Role of Modulation in Songs by Frank Loesser
College Boards Music Theory Advanced Placement Reading Professional
Colloquium, Ewing, NJ, June 11, 2005
This was not a peer-reviewed presentation.

Every
Love but True Love: Unstable Relationships in Cole Porters Love
for Sale
College Boards Music Theory Advanced Placement Reading Professional
Colloquium, Ewing, NJ, June 2002
This was not a peer-reviewed presentation.

Some Isomorphisms
between Transformational Theory and American Square Dance Calls
Co-authored with Nancy Rogers, Florida State University
Society for Music Theory annual meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November 9, 2001

Laura
and her Ninth Chords: Were They Only a Dream?
Society for American Music annual meeting,
Port of Spain, Trinidad, May 25, 2001

Determining
Similarity among Pitch Sets of Unequal Cardinality: A Contextual Approach
Society for Music Theory annual meeting (a major joint meeting with thirteen
other national and international scholarly music societies), Toronto, Ontario,
Canada, November 2000

Unresolved
Suspensions in David Raksins Laura
College Boards Music Theory Advanced Placement Reading Professional
Colloquium, Ewing, NJ, June 2000 This was not a peer-reviewed presentation.

Fuzzy
Logic and Elemental Saturation in Musical Pitch-Class Set Theory
1st International Symposium for Systems Research in the Arts in conjunction
with the 11th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics,
and Cybernetics, Baden-Baden, Germany, August 1999
Received award for best paper in its category

The World-Wide
Web as Classroom Resource for Music Theory Instruction
College Boards Music Theory Advanced Placement Reading Professional
Colloquium, Ewing, NJ, June 1999 This was not a peer-reviewed presentation.

A Cycle-Based
System for Relating Pitch-Class Sets
Society for Music Theory annual meeting, Phoenix, AZ, November 1997
Also delivered at the Music Theory Society of New York State annual meeting,
Rochester, NY, April 1997

An Alternative
to the Interval-Class Vector and Its Use in Relating Abstract Pitch-Class
Sets
Society for Music Theory annual meeting, New York, NY, November 1995
Also at the Music Theory Society of New York State annual meeting, Buffalo,
NY, April 1995

Anatomy
of a Chord: An Introduction to Interval Classes and Similarity Relations
The Chord in Context: A New Analytic Tool and Its Use in Relating
Pitch-Class Sets
Two-part invited lecture series at the Northwestern University School of
Music, October 1995

"An Alternative
to the Interval-Class Vector and Its Use in Relating Abstract Pitch-Class
Sets"
Music Theory Society of New York State annual meeting, Buffalo, NY, April
1995

Invited Session Chairs at Academic Meetings

Session chair at the Society for Music Theory 2011 Meeting, Minneapolis, MN.

"Pitch Organisation in Post-Tonal Music" at the Dublin International Conference on Music Analysis, Dublin, Ireland, June 24, 2005.

Moderator of panel discussion on trends in new music at the Florida State University Biennial Festival of New Music, February 5, 2005. Panel included Martin Bresnick, Michael Torke, Vaclav Riedelbauch, Tadeusz Wielecki, Melissa Mazolli, Lisa Moore, and Ladislav Kubik.

Teaching Twentieth-Century Compositional Techniques to Undergraduates: A Symposium and Demonstration at the Society for Music Theory annual meeting, Columbus, OH, November 2002